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Encore Episode: How to Apply for SSI Disability & Get It Right

Summary: Find out how to apply for Social Security disability and improve your chances for approval.

Air Date: 9/18/18

Duration: 20:11

Host: Melanie Cole, MS

Guest Bio: Mary Dale Walters, Senior Vice President of Allsup

Mary Dale Walters is a senior vice president for Allsup. She focuses on the company’s efforts to ensure access to a continuing quality of life for tens of thousands of customers.

Allsup works with individuals, employers and insurance carriers to coordinate private and public benefits for workers with disabilities and retirees, including Social Security Disability, Ticket to Work, Veterans’ Disability, Medicare, Marketplace plans and private employer benefits.

If you are able to return to work, there are incentives to aid your return. Receiving Social Security benefits isn’t necessarily lifelong. Some situations just require a boost to help get you back on your feet.

Apply as soon as it’s clear you can’t work for twelve months or longer. If you are still working, you will be denied. There is a five-month waiting period before your benefits will kick in. About 34 percent of those who apply for benefits are approved without appeal. Appeals can take years.